Recordings
Classical Tranquillity £7.00
$9.27 Guide price
John Rutter (conductor)
Manchester Camerata (orchestra)
Classical Tranquillity
John Rutter writes . . . Tranquillity is a state of mind. You might be more likely to describe a favourite countryside scene rather than a person as ‘tranquil’, but you are really describing the effect it has on you. You feel calm, serene, still, at peace, relaxed, untroubled, chilled-out . . . perhaps we… Read more »
Sing, ye Heavens £14.00
$18.53 Guide price
The Cambridge Singers | City of London Sinfonia
John Rutter (conductor)
Sing, ye Heavens
21 hymns reflecting 15 centuries of Christianity. Gregorian chant rubs shoulders with German chorales, Celtic folk melodies and 18th-century London street songs (in Anglican guise) in arrangements ranging from delicate harp accompaniment to thrilling festival treatments with brass, timpani, percussion and organ.
A Banquet of Voices £9.00
$11.91 Guide price
The Cambridge Singers
John Rutter (conductor)
Helen Gough (baroque cello)
William Hunt (violone)
Wayne Marshall (chamber organ)
A Banquet of Voices
A sumptuous programme of music for multiple choirs with the dazzling Tallis 40-part motet Spem in alium nunquam habui as the centrepiece.
This is a re-release of the classic Cambridge Singers recording, using modern digital sound restoration, allowing the music to be heard in its full sonic splendour.
A Song in Season £14.00
$18.53 Guide price
The Cambridge Singers | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
John Rutter (conductor)
A Song in Season
A collection of Rutter’s festival canticles, anthems and motets composed in the 21st century and encompassing the seasons of the liturgical year. Includes Look to the Day, composed for Cancer Research UK, and the popular harvest anthem Look at the World.
Feel the Spirit £9.00
$11.91 Guide price
The Cambridge Singers | Melanie Marshall (mezzo-soprano) | BBC Concert Orchestra
John Rutter (conductor)
Feel the Spirit
Strong, stirring spirituals and tuneful, jazz-flavoured settings of Shakespeare’s timeless lyrics are the mouth-watering ingredients of the Cambridge Singers’ album Feel the Spirit. Vivid arrangements and settings by John Rutter and George Shearing.
Be thou my vision £9.00
$11.91 Guide price
The Cambridge Singers | City of London Sinfonia
John Rutter (conductor)
Be thou my vision
Gathered from across the Collegium catalogue, Be thou my vision includes all of the sacred choral pieces for which Rutter is justly famous, representing for the first time a handy compendium of the best-loved Rutter works in their definitive performances by the Cambridge Singers, directed by the composer.
Fauré: Requiem and other sacred music £9.00
$11.91 Guide price
The Cambridge Singers | City of London Sinfonia
John Rutter (conductor)
Fauré: Requiem and other sacred music
The Gramophone Award-winning 1984 recording of Fauré’s Requiem. The first-ever performance on disc of the work in its intimate original version – re-discovered by Rutter in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris after a century – it remains one of the jewels in the crown of the Collegium catologue.
Fancies
This album explores the secular works by Rutter: Fancies is an Elizabethan poetry cycle; When Icicles Hang sets texts by Shakespeare and Campion; the Five Childhood Lyrics set a group of simple rhymes in a spirit of fun and fairytale; and the six-movement Suite Antique for flute, harpsichord and strings ranges from simple, classic ‘aria’ to upbeat ‘jazz waltz’.
The Sprig of Thyme £9.00
$11.91 Guide price
The Cambridge Singers | City of London Sinfonia
John Rutter (conductor)
The Sprig of Thyme
The Sprig of Thyme offers a selection of traditional songs of the British Isles, with long-standing favourites as Willow Song and The Miller of Dee and lesser known gems as O Can Ye Sew Cushions and The Sprig of Thyme. The album includes many new settings for choir and small instrumental group by John Rutter.
Lighten our Darkness £14.00
$18.53 Guide price
The Cambridge Singers
John Rutter (conductor)
Lighten our Darkness
The complete Office of Compline in English, as recorded in the sumptuous acoustic of the Ely Cathedral Lady Chapel, together with 18 lovely a cappella motets written to adorn the the evening worship of the church. Two-CD set.
